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Drawing Physics : 2,600 Years of Discovery From Thales to Higgs /
"The subject of "Seeing Physics" is our understanding of the physical universe as organized into 51 one thousand-word essays each anchored in a drawing that conveys a key idea. Each essay expands on the science of the drawing and places it in a broader human context. Many people have...
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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London, England :
The MIT Press,
[2017]
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| Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Antiquity; Triangulation (600 BCE)
- Pythagorean monochord (500 BCE)
- Phases of the moon (448 BCE)
- Empedocles discovers air (450 BCE)
- Aristotle's universe (350 BCE)
- Relative distance of sun and moon (280 BCE)
- Archimedes' balance (250 BCE)
- Archimedes' principle (250 BCE)
- The size of the earth (225 BCE)
- Middle Ages; Philoponus on free fall (550 CE)
- The optics of vision (1020 CE)
- Oresme's triangle
- Leonardo and earthshine
- Early Modern Period; The Copernican cosmos
- The impossibility of perpetual motion
- Snell's law
- The mountains on the moon
- The moons of Jupiter
- Kepler's laws of planetary motion
- Galileo on free fall
- Galileo on projectile motion
- Scaling and similitude
- The weight of air
- Boyle's law
- Newton's theory of color
- Free-body diagrams
- Newton's cradle
- Newtonian trajectories
- Huygens' principle
- Bernoulli's principle
- Electrostatics
- Nineteenth Century; Young's double slit
- Oersted's demonstration
- Carnot's simplest heat engine
- Joules's apparatus
- Faraday's lines of force
- Maxwell's electromagnetic waves
- Twentieth Century and Beyond; Photoelectric effect
- Brownian motion
- Rutherford's gold foil experiment
- Bohr's hydrogen atom
- X-rays and crystals
- General relativity
- Compton scattering
- Matter waves
- The expanding universe (1927-29)
- The neutrino and conservation of energy
- Discovering the neutron
- Nuclear fission and nuclear fusion
- Global greenhouse effect
- Higgs boson (2012).